Tuesday, December 30, 2025
In the shadow of Asia’s rapid digitalization, a silent revolution is unfolding. Cybercrime has evolved far beyond the domain of individual hackers into a sophisticated, AI-powered industry. As companies in cities like Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai expand their digital infrastructures, a pressing question emerges: are our defenses capable of keeping pace with adversaries that learn, adapt and operate faster than we do?
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Sunday, December 28, 2025
When Warren Buffett speaks, markets listen. His annual letters are dissected line by line, his investment choices treated as signals of economic truth. Yet far from the spotlight, a far larger and arguably more consequential investor shapes global capitalism with almost no noise at all. Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global — often called the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — does not try to beat the market. It is the market.
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Friday, December 26, 2025
Artificial intelligence debates in Europe often revolve around regulation, sovereignty and the dominance of American platforms. Less visible, but no less consequential, is the role played by non-European industrial powers whose technologies are deeply embedded in Europe’s digital and economic fabric. Samsung is one of them.
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Friday, December 26, 2025
The Middle East is no longer just an oil region. Today, it is a laboratory for ambition, investment and strategic recalibration. Countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain are racing to define their place in a world reshaped by artificial intelligence, technological innovation and the subtle currents of geopolitics.
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Thursday, December 25, 2025
Quantum computing is often presented as a technological race: who has the most qubits, the lowest error rates or the boldest scientific claims. That framing is misleading. The real story unfolding in 2025 is not about hardware benchmarks, but about how societies choose to organize technological power.
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Monday, December 22, 2025
Here’s Finn the Duck, your fluffy yellow ace reporter, keeping it short, sharp and grown-up.
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Monday, December 22, 2025
Artificial intelligence is often framed as a consumer-facing technology, driven by chatbots, platforms and foundation models. Yet some of the most consequential AI systems in Europe operate far from public view, embedded deep within the digital infrastructure that keeps societies connected. Ericsson stands at the centre of this invisible layer.
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Monday, December 22, 2025
Algorithms rarely draw attention to themselves. They do not speak, persuade or campaign. Yet they increasingly decide how we move through cities, how markets function and how information reaches us. Their influence is subtle, procedural — and deeply political. To understand why algorithms matter today, it helps to start somewhere deceptively simple.
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
While much of the global AI conversation is dominated by American hyperscalers and Chinese platform giants, a quieter — yet arguably more consequential — transformation is unfolding in Europe. At the center of this shift stands Siemens, a company better known for turbines, factories and rail systems than for artificial intelligence. Yet today, Siemens is emerging as one of Europe’s most strategically important AI actors, not by chasing consumer AI dominance, but by embedding intelligence deep into the continent’s industrial and infrastructural backbone. This is not AI as spectacle. It is AI as system logic.
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Artificial intelligence has quietly become one of the most loaded words in European education. Not because of what it can do, but because of why institutions increasingly want to use it. Across Europe — and notably in the Netherlands — higher education institutions are facing financial pressure. Budget cuts, rising costs and structural reforms are pushing boards to look for efficiency gains. In that context, AI is often framed as an obvious solution. Faster processes. Fewer people. Lower costs. That framing is understandable — and fundamentally flawed.
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